During the pandemic, the chancellor and the heads of the sixteen states met by video to decide on Corona measures. In March 2021 several state leaders complained that nothing stayed inside the meeting. Malu Dreyer, minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate, said: Im Ergebnis kann man gar nicht mehr offen sprechen, weil zu vieles sofort in den Medien landet. “In the end you can no longer speak openly, because too much ends up in the media at once.” Axel Wintermeyer, head of the Hesse state chancellery, called the meetings so durchlässig wie ein Schweizer Käse, as full of holes as Swiss cheese. According to Bodo Ramelow, minister-president of Thuringia, 61 people had been connected to the last summit.